The members of the 101st Airborne drop into Normandy on D-Day. The drops are a huge failure, and the members of Easy Company are separated. Winters finds some members of his company and leads them to an American camp. He is then put in charge of the company when it becomes obvious that their commander did not survive the jump. Easy Company is then sent to take out a German artillery position that is giving the troops on Utah Beach some problems.

When the men take position near the second artillery cannon, one of the soldiers takes aim with an opened bolt on his M1 Garand, indicating that the weapon is not loaded.

When Winters puts a German hand grenade into the muzzle of the cannon to detonate the TNT, he tries to pull the fuse arming cord at the bottom of the grenade, misses it and shoves the unarmed grenade in anyway.